Hello, Pluto !
▻http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2015/07/14/hello-pluto
Images obtained by OSIRIS, #Rosetta’s scientific imaging system, show dwarf planet Pluto shortly before the flyby of NASA’s New Horizons. On Sunday 12 July 2015, OSIRIS, the scientific imaging system on board ESA’s spacecraft #rosetta, took a glance away from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko to the edge of our Solar System, towards Pluto. Over five billion kilometres away, an exposure time of more than three hours, and sophisticated image processing, was necessary to detect Pluto in the #Images. Twenty images, each exposed for ten minutes, had to be stacked and carefully processed to reveal the tiny world. Pluto is thus the most distant body within the Solar System that Rosetta has ever looked at. NASA’s space probe New Horizons made its historic flyby of this distant world today, passing within (...)